What Happened in Class 1402 Mon-Thurs

Thursday Sept. 3

Speech 1402

We had a chaotic beginning to our first class due to the overhead projector having no electrical signal. This prevented us from reading the syllabus in class. We went to Plan B, and that was to do paired interviews and introductions.

The instructor taught the class a technique for remembering a person’s name, and that is to associate it with something about the person’s face. Using this technique, many members of the class were able to recall the names of our first 10-12 students.

Students did introductions and we covered about half the class.

The instructor told students about the text and the blog.

Next class: Order books or purchase them at the bookstore. Online orders should be printed out to prove that they were placed within a few days of the first class. If a book should arrive late, this proof will enable the student to make up the work at a later date without any decrease in grade.

Students will also need an an MLA/APA style guide. One used for a previous class will be acceptable.

Advertising 3960 Sec. 1, , Thurs., Sept. 3

Link to syllabus.


Note: No class on Monday due to Labor Day holiday.

The instructor talked about the various positions she has held in the advertising field. The syllabus was read and the instructor explained the various class projects.

At the conclusion of class, we did an email list.

For the next class, students are to:

a) Order their three books or purchase them at the bookstore. Online orders should be printed out to prove that they were placed within a few days of the first class. If a book should arrive late, this proof will enable the student to make up the work at a later date without any decrease in grade.

g) Go to Blackboard an open up an account

h) Read Chapter 7 on research (online)

i) Find a “client” for the various advertising class projects. There is also the opportunity to work with The Tower.

CSS Week of Aug. 3

PowerPoint for Class 10

XML file examples

Example: sign up for RSS Feeds:

NYTimes
Washington Post
CNET

HTML Tidy
W3C CSS Validator

Use of strikethrough by a newspaper
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PowerPoint for Class 9

Jobs in Social Media article from CNN.

CSS Week of July 27

Wednesday:

PowerPoint for Web Accessibility

Screen reader interface


Color blind test


Assistive technology for mobility impaired


W3C Accessibility Guidelines






Monday:

Javascript term definitions PowerPoint.

CSS Class 7 PowerPoint

In addition, there will be a terminology handout that goes with the first PowerPoint.

In our last class, we talked about navigating pages using the TAB key. Here's a statement by a company (Diet-Rite) on how they make their pages accessible to those with disabilities.
Note: we will be discussing this at our Wednesday class.

CSS Week of July 20

Powerpoint (finish forms):
Powerpoint (overview):
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Here's a story about how a professor built a web site about baseball statistics.

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Download Powerpoint on Forms.

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Review: navigation menus
Sources:

Alvit
Exploding Boy
Dynamic Drive
Listamatic


Links to examples:
BJs
Premiere Club Rewards
Football Fanatics Rewards Club

PSEG Report a Street Light Out
Link to Student Support
Subscribe to free web design newsletter

Tryit Links:
Checkbox
Radio button
Send e-mail

FCKEditor

CSS Week of July 13

Look at these creative navigational buttons.


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Download Powerpoint for CSS Class 4

Fixed position
Transparent effect with fixed position
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Download Powerpoint for CSS Class 3.

Review question 3. Contrast links: Furniture. Microsoft.

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I can't believe I forgot to give students the handouts as we worked through the exercises from the last class! There they were, right in front on the desk, and I completely forgot to hand them out.

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There an article in the NY Times about bing, Microsoft's new search engine. The writer says it has some advantages over Google.

In case anyone wants to check out the NPR article Scott and I were talking about last night, here's the link about Android.

CSS Week of July 6

Wed. class

Powerpoint for CSS Class 2.

Margins link.

Margins2.



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Here's the image link to experiment with:

https://home.comcast.net/~cherie1/Class/smbkgnd.jpg

CSS Class 1 PowerPoint

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Here are answers from Continuing Ed for some student questions:

a. Students do not need to declare their intent to complete a certificate program.

b. The Fall catalog went on the UCC website yesterday. The print version will be out in about 3 weeks, however, he can access the catalog under the Continuing Education link and register at any time.

c. In terms of grading, instructors are advised that for certificate programs students should receive either a letter or number grade that is written on the roster. It is up to you to decide how their achievement is assessed and can be a combination of homework, class participation, projects, quizzes, tests, etc.